Justus Hecker

The Dancing Mania

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Justus Hecker



Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

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Justus Hecker



Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker (1795-1850) was a German physician and medical writer, whose research focused on the history of epidemics, in a…